Did you ever feel the blastAs the Semtex bomb goes off?Do you ever hear the screamsAs the limbs are all torn off?

Did you ever kiss the childWho just saw his father shot?Do you ever shed a tearAs the war drags on and on?

Do you ever touch the nightOr is it just another job?Do you fear the final hoursPut down paradise as lost?

Do you ever fear the night?Could it be the war is lost?Do you fear the final hour?Do you kneel before the cross?

Do you dream at night? Do you scream at night?Do you smell the fear? Is your conscience
clear?Are you caked in sweat? Are your clothes
all wet?Do you see the light? Is the end in sight?See the face of Christ, enter paradise?I doubt it

Inside Take

That is Mick's song, totally.

-
Keith Richards, 1994

I was writing it at the end of the Wandering
Spirit album(Mick's
3rd solo album). I was sort of
halfway through with it, and I thought, Well, this would be better suited
to the Rolling Stones' next album. It was all kind of in my head, rather
than written down. But you know, it's pretty strong. I think it's good
to have one like that on the record, it shakes you up a bit. Otherwise
all the songs are about girls and cars and immaturity.

-
Mick Jagger, 1994

It's just a bit like a Staples
Singers kind of sound, a little bit... I was trying to take that song
a little bit in that direction. Didn't quite go the way I was expecting,
but I think it worked out all right.